Foreign Policy in Global Information Space Actualizing Soft Power

This book aims to explain how foreign policy can adapt to the challenge of globalization. Two central questions are posed to structure the argument: how can foreign policy defend or project statist political communities using soft power within a global information space, and does soft power, when exercised in turn by non-state actors, affect foreign policy by undermining statist community within the same global information space?

Alan Chong is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore.

Introduction: Nation-State Foreign Policy Amidst Globalization * Towards a Changing Environment for Foreign Policy: Nation-State, Globalization, and Information as Political Power * Global Information Space, Discursive Community and Soft Power * Soft Power in Foreign Policy * Leadership in Foreign Policy, From Inside-Out and Outside-In: Singaporean Foreign Policy and the Asian Values Debate 1992-2000 * The Intermestic Politics of Foreign Policy: Chilean Foreign Policy and the Pinochet Extradition Controversy 1998-2000 * Conclusion: Soft Power Foreign Policy--Creation Spinning Re-creation Introduction: Nation-State Foreign Policy Amidst Globalization * Towards a Changing Environment for Foreign Policy: Nation-State, Globalization, and Information as Political Power * Global Information Space, Discursive Community and Soft Power * Soft Power in Foreign Policy * Leadership in Foreign Policy, From Inside-Out and Outside-In: Singaporean Foreign Policy and the Asian Values Debate 1992-2000 * The Intermestic Politics of Foreign Policy: Chilean Foreign Policy and the Pinochet Extradition Controversy 1998-2000 * Conclusion: Soft Power Foreign Policy--Creation Spinning Re-creation